One stamp............are you ready?

Hello stampers, hi-de-hi. It's Clare here.   Well I was doing a little something blue and ended up using the Walesby heart stamp which as some of you may already know is going to be the one stamp challenge that is taking place on July 12th&13th.  The Walesby heart is available in 3 different sizes, in this project I have used  the small and the medium.

For this card I have used

Walesby heart small & medium

Spode blue ink

French mint ink

Pearly silver ink

Sea blue ink pad

I spritzed French mint, Spode blue and pearly silver ink onto my card.  I then faintly stamped the smaller Walesby stamp around the outside in sea blue.  After that I stamped the medium Walesby stamp in the centre with sea blue and embossed with clear embossing powder. I decorated my card using some die cut flourishes, liquid pearls and some turquoise dots.

So go for it, set aside the 12th&13th July and treat yourself to a crafty weekend and take part in the challenge.

You can find out more on the website HERE and join the Facebook group to post your ONE STAMP projects on there.

Crafty hugs,

Clare x x x 

Come and join in the fun.

Hi guys, Lisa here with a bit of inspiration for the June challenge - "Something Blue". 

 The challenge runs till the end of the month, so there is still plenty of time to get your entries in.... come on, have a go.

All the details of how to enter are available HERE on this blog. 

For this card I chose to work with the Oak House Studio Triple Butterfly stamp set, 'Midnight' and 'Powder Blue' Colour Chemistry ink pads and the utterly gorgeous 'Glorious Gold' spray from the 'Ink In A Bottle' metallics range. 

Here is what I created...

I played around with the Oak House Studio Triple Butterfly set for this one. As we know, I adore butterflies so this stamp set wasn't a hard one to chose.

I stamped the butterfly on to white stamping card with Oak House Studio Colour Chemistry 'Midnight' ink a number of times concentrating in the bottom left corner. I coloured the butterflies with 'Midnight' and 'Powder Blue' ink using a waterbrush. 

I stamped a couple of extra butterflies on to stamping card and cut them out. I coloured them the same way then sprayed Oak House Studio 'Ink In A Bottle 'Glorious Gold' spray over the top. I mounted them using 3D foam pads. 

To finish, I stamped the 'spread your wings' sentiment in the top corner. 

Either leave a comment with a link to your project or join us over at our Facebook group here.

And next month we have a fabulous "ONE STAMP" challenge that we are all so excited about. You can find out more here.

Hope to see you all soon,

Toodles, Lisa xxx

Simply Brilliant

There are times when keeping it simple creates stunning results.
This set if cards by designer Rae Dalal show how you can create a great card without lots of layers and embellishments.

These first two cards use the Script Sentiment stamps and a trio of inks pads for our Colour Chemistry range.
The colours is question are Midnight, Powder Blue and Sea Blue.
You could of course create a similar look with say Powder Blue, Orchid and spring green.


 My favourite card of the set below uses shadow stamping,  clever but simple shapes and mats to carry the coordinated theme through.
Rae has used
Script Sentiments set
Harlequin Pattern Set
Mountain ash leaf stamp

Don't forget we want to see your projects so go use your Oak House Products to make " Something Blue" and show us what you made. A winner will be chosen at random for a £40 voucher to spend on the website.

New Challenge for June

Something Blue: 

SuzeJo Murphy

It is no secret that Lynnda has a bit of a passion for Blue and Green these colours have dominated her projects for some time.
Well this month Lynnda challenged the new design team to do "Something Blue" here are the first projects to inspire you.

Barbara Cleggett

Interestingly the new design team had a free choice of stamps and inks for this months theme, but it would seem they all liked some of Lynnda's favourite stamps. Check out these designs all featuring the Double Daisy stamp set. The set consists of two stamps that work great together and are equally inspiring apart.



The stamp set is available in two sizes, check out the website to find more lovely stamps to inspire you to be creative too.

Barbara Daines

Clare Messenger

We would love you to join in the challenge to, just create a project using at least one Oak House Studio product, stamp or ink or embossing powder....





Post your project on your blog or facebook page and make sure let us know where to see your project and which Oak House Studio products you have used.






At the end of the month a winner will be picked at random to win a £40 voucher to spend on the website.




The full details of the normal Oak House Challenge rules on a page, check the top to find out more.

We have lots more inspiring projects to share with you so keep popping back.

Sylvia Ames

Bright and Beautiful

Hello, Eileen here with a selection of cards that I've made over the last few months with Oak House Studio products.
The butterfly card was created useing three gorgeous stamps from the Oak House Studio Range. The large and small Charming Butterflies along with a real favourite of mine, The Mountain Ash Leaf. The leaf image was stamped using Distress inks. The butterflies were stamped with black pigment ink onto the card and also on to some spare,scrap card that I sprayed with Citrus Colours, from the Inks in a Bottle Range. It was very easy, cutting the butterflies out and then layering them onto the card.

Staying with the Mountain Ash Leaf Image, I made two tags from White Card stock, also from Oak House Studio, its so smooth and I use it a lot for my tags.
The next three of cards are samples that I designed with Oak House Studio Stamps and Inks for a couple of workshops last year.
They were very popular with my 'Students'.(Two of the sentiment stamps were from my stash.)

Thank you for popping over for a look today. The Oak House Studio Web Shop is always open. Look here.

New Design Team

It is over a year since I added any new members to my design team. I have this week asked 6 new crafters to join the team for the next 3 months.
They are Rae Dalal, Clare Messenger, Sylvia Ames, Lisa Winnard, Lynne Volwes and after her sucess in the monthly challenges they have been joined by Barbara Cleggett.
You can discover more about the team by looking on the Meet the Team page or click on their name in the list on the side bar.

If you fancy being part of the team from September then maybe you should join in the challenges along side this team.
Their first challenge will start on 14th of the month like always.

There is more news too the next ONE STAMP project will be the 12th and 13th July.

The stamp this time will be a the new Walesby heart.

 It come in 3 sizes and you can use any to complete the project, or of course you could use two or all three. It will be on teh website very soon but in the mean time check out what Barbara Cleggett did with hers



Last but not least we have a guest design this month too, to keep you all inspired this month we have a special blog post from Eileen Godwin on Wednesday. You can see more of Eileen's work and find out more about her workshops on her BLOG  

Winning again

This card by Barbara Cleggett beautifully illustrates what I was thinking when I said "texture". Barbara has used Paperclay with her Oak House Studio stamps to great effect on this entry and I am delighted to say Barbara is the winner of this months texture challenge.
There will not be a challenge in May whilst I move studios AND we sort out a new design team, but keep an eye on the blog for some guest bloggers and a special project or too. I hope to have news of the next ONE STAMP project very soon too.